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  • Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects: Retrospect and Prospects
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  • R.A. Ayee
  • 2008
  • Published by: CODESRIA
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Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospectsis an in-depth and wide-ranging review of the available literature on African public sector reforms. It illustrates several differing country experiences to buttress the main observations and conclusions. It adopts a structural/institutional approach which underpins most of the reform efforts on the continent. To contextualize reform of the public sector and understand its processes, dynamics and intricacies, the book examines the state and state capacity building in Africa, especially when there can be no state without an efficient public sector. In addition, the book addresses a number of theories such as the new institutional economics, public choice and new public management, which have in one way or another influenced most of the initiatives implemented under public sector reform in Africa. There is also a survey of the three phases of public sector reform which have emerged and the balance sheet of reform strategies, namely, decentralization, privatization, deregulation, agencification, co-production and public-private partnerships. It concludes by identifying possible alternative approaches such as developing a vigorous public sector ethos and sustained capacity building to promote and enhance the renewal and reconstruction of the African public sector within the context of the New Partnerships for Africa's Development (NEPAD), good governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright Page
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. Chapter One - The Public Sector and Administrative Reform
  2. pp. 1-17
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  1. Chapter Two - The Politics of State Capacity Building in Africa: Issues and Challenges
  2. pp. 18-33
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  1. Chapter Three - Theoretical Drivers of Public Sector Reform Initiatives in Africa
  2. pp. 34-55
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  1. Chapter Four - Phases of Public Sector Reform in Africa
  2. pp. 56-69
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  1. Chapter Five - Strategies of Public Sector Reform: The Balance Sheet
  2. pp. 70-143
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  1. Chapter Six - The Future of the African Public Sector: Alternative Approaches to Renewal and Reconstruction
  2. pp. 144-151
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 152-153
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 153-175
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  1. Back Cover
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